Symbolic icons in app menu -- not ready for F22

[drago01]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> I sent this to the wrong desktop list earlier today [1]. Trying
> again....
>
> [1] h
> ttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-April/msg00028.html
>
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> From: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>
> To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list at gnome.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:48:10 -0500
> Subject: Symbolic icons in app menu -- not ready for F22
> Hi,
>
> Currently, half our apps use nice symbolic icons in the app menu,
> while the other half use shrunken hicolor icons. This inconsistency is
> a poor user experience, and not something that should happen in a
> serious operating system. Progress is being tracked at [1] under the
> column 3.16 status, but it's clearly not going to be finished prior to
> the F22.
>
> I don't think this change is ready for Fedora (or other distros -- the
> change should have been delayed until GNOME 3.18). We should wait
> until at least all the apps we install by default have symbolic icons
> before making this switch. Ideally [1] would be completed as well. I
> propose either:
>
> a) Reverting the change to use symbolic icons for the app menu in a
> downstream patch. This would involve reverting upstream commit [2].
>
> b) Integrating symbolic icons for those apps in downstream patches.
> This would be more work, but at least patches already exist (thanks
> Jakub!) for nearly all GNOME apps, even though a few have been
> rejected upstream. We would still need icons for devassistant and
> setroubleshoot, though.

As long as "those apps" is only a subset of available apps the
inconsistency will remain. So while this would improve it it won't
really "fix" it.